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Social network you want to login/join with: PURPOSE OF THE ROLE • The Costs Lawyer will join the Costs Team who support the firm's Disputes Group by providing legal advice on costs-related matters. • In this role, you will operate across our Disputes Group, encompassing a diverse range of practice areas such as Commercial Disputes, Finance Disputes, Real Estate Disputes, Construction Disputes, Insolvency Disputes and Intellectual Property Disputes. From a day-to-day perspective, the successful candidate will: • Prepare all costs related documents, providing tailored costs advice. • Liaise with fee-earners to manage expectations. • Ensure compliance with relevant procedural rules and regulations. This role directly contributes to the firm's Disputes Group's success, enhances client satisfaction, and supports the firm's overall financial performance. The firm is experiencing increased demand for costs-related expertise due to growth. This hire will strengthen the Costs Team and ensure the firm continues to deliver exceptional client service. THE TEAM • Our team of legal cost specialists is a specialist team within the Disputes Group, providing expertise in all aspects of legal costs. The team is recognised for its technical excellence and its ability to deliver commercially focused solutions. • We work internationally across multiple jurisdictions, a natural choice for FTSE100 clients and their equivalents in other markets. The team handles complex, high-value costs matters spanning a broad range of specialisms, including multi-jurisdictional disputes. • At Addleshaw Goddard, we foster a supportive, collaborative, and friendly culture where our people are valued and encouraged to achieve their full potential. The team is motivated and works closely together to deliver innovative solutions and exceptional service. We are genuinely committed to the development and growth of our employees, ensuring everyone has the opportunity to learn, flourish, and advance in their careers. • You will be part of a team that is constantly seeking new ways to exceed client expectations. We encourage you to embrace innovation and think outside the box, enabling you to contribute to our success and shape the future of our firm. WHAT TO EXPECT IN THIS ROLE • We are seeking a skilled, forward-thinking Costs Lawyer to join our growing Costs Team, where you will play a pivotal role in providing expert advice and support on costs-related matters. Working closely with our Dispute Group, you will deliver high-quality, commercially focused solutions on complex, high-calibre matters for leading clients across multiple jurisdictions. • Our Costs Team is integral to the firm's success, and we are committed to staying at the forefront of innovation and technology within the legal industry. This role offers a unique opportunity to embrace and develop cutting-edge tools to drive efficiency, improve accuracy, and deliver enhanced value to our clients. As part of our forward-thinking team, you will be encouraged to explore and implement innovative approaches to costs. By doing so, you will help shape the future of our Costs Team. • In this role, you will develop your technical expertise while driving meaningful change and improvement. You will have the opportunity to combine traditional legal expertise with innovative solutions. YOUR AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE To be successful in this role, any candidate will need: • Comprehensive experience in all stages of detailed assessment. Experience in drafting bills, points of dispute, points of reply, attend hearings. • Work collaboratively on settlements, offering strategic advice on settlement parameters. • Comprehensive experience in all stages of costs management. Experience in drafting precedent H budgets, precedent R discussion reports, precedent T forms for budget variations and monitoring legal spend. • Preparation of N260 schedules of costs for summary assessments, schedules of costs to support requests for payments on account, and schedules of costs for arbitrations. • Experience in preparing costs estimates to support security for costs application. • Strong background in legal cost assessment and management. • Ability to manage competing deadlines and deliver high-quality, accurate outputs within agreed timeframes. • Ability to provide strategic advice and manage complex legal tasks. OUR FIRM Addleshaw Goddard is a place where you are valued, encouraged, and challenged to fulfil your potential in a supportive and collegiate environment. Our culture of improvement, growth and collaboration delivers results, drives innovation, and rewards ambition. We not only provide technical excellence and experience but, crucially, demonstrate real insight into our clients and what really matters to them and as such we are natural choice for FTSE100 clients and their equivalents in other markets. Our success has been built by people from the widest range of backgrounds, locations, and perspectives. We have a number of employee networks that provide space to discuss the differences that make us who we are and celebrate this at AG. OUR APPROACH: IMAGINE THE BEST YOU CAN BE Everything we've accomplished can be traced back to our people and the way we work. Our reputation is something we are proud of, and constantly invest in. Here, you'll do high calibre work, with high-character colleagues who care for one another and our clients. Are you up for the challenge?#J-18808-Ljbffr